Improved bar for horseshoe blanks



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stent @imite EBENEZER GATE, 0F WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 102,775, :lated .May 10, 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame To all whont it may concern Be it known that I, EBENEZER GATE, ofWatertown, Middlesex county, in the State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoe Iron or Ironfor Making Horseshoes; and IV hereby declare the following to be a fulland exact description thereof, reference being;` had to the accompanyingdrawings forming part of this specifica# tion. I

thepecnliar form and construction of iron for the [manufacture ofhorseshoes, described in the following specification4 and represented inthe accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a bar of angle iron,shown .with my improvements, in which A is the widest angle, which,

when the iron is bent, forms the hed -for the horses'f foot to rest onwhen it is set.

The narrow angle B of the iron forms the treadwearing surface or sole ofthe shoe, and may be made of greater or less height or thickness toadapt it to the use or wear intended.

The edge of the angle B is made flat, and grooved alternately, as shownin fig. 1 of the drawings.

The grooves G O may be formed when the iron is' rolled, if the rollersare properly formed for the pur- The nature or essenccof my inventionconsists iu p pose, inelu'ding't-he prints for the nail holes, shown atl) D, in the grooves.

The bars of' iron may be rolled of any convenientlength, the levelspaces bet-Ween the grooves where the bar is to hecut o' or separated,heingmade twice as long as the others, and the ange or angle B may benicked or partly out oli' when the bar is rolled, if' desired, and thatsteelmay berolled in the same form or iron faced with steel. Y

My improved horseshoe iron can he formed by hand when desired,' by theuse of proper swages and tools.

My invention is intended to make angle iron in`

